School: Ráth Ó gCormaic (C.), Carraig na Siúire

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1. Amhráin (continued)

   “Oh, William Crotty didn't I tell you”

   

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   My little curse fall on him and his, That brought you to an end and like this, Ochone, ochone, ochone. Mrs. Crotty wrote this song when her husband William Crotty the outlaw of the Comeragh mountains was captured and hanged. Mrs. Crotty, David Norris and William Crotty are the people mentioned in the song. Crotty and his wife lived in a cave in the Comeragh mountains near a lake now called Crotty's lake. David Norris was the man who betrayed Crotty. None of them is alive now. The people do not know any of their relations.

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2. Amhráin

   “Come all ye gentle people”

   

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   "Come all ye gentle people,
   Combine and lend an ear,
   I'll sing ye forth a verse or two,
   Of a charming maid so dear,
   Tis the curling of her yellow locks,
   That stole away my heart,
   And death I'm alive will be the cure,

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